Understanding Education & Policy – serie
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48 produkter
Values Spoken and Values Lived
Cultural Consequences of a School Closing
Häftad, 1998
241 kr
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This ethnography depicts the cultural consequences of a local school closing in a small, rural, predominantly black community. It shows how the dynamics of the community deepen fundamental contradictions between strong beliefs in education (values spoken) and actual conduct (values lived).
Democratic Classroom
Theory to Inform Practice
Av Art Pearl, Tony Knight
Häftad, 1999
366 kr
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This text argues that difficult problems can not be solved without a democratic process. Essential to the resolution of such problems is a reconstructed school that prepares students to become effective problem solvers and informed, responsible democratic citizens.
Kids Got Smarter
Case Studies of Successful Comer Schools
Av George W. Noblit, Carol Malloy m. fl.
Inbunden, 2001
449 kr
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In the USA, the Comer programme assists underachieving urban schools by examining their system and their students. The implications of the successes reported in this volume show that children from all backgrounds can gain vital social and academic skills when education addresses their needs.
Academic Identity
Race, Place and Gender in the Higher Education Curriculum
Av Robert P. Engvall (Roger Williams University, USA)
Inbunden, 2003
697 kr
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This text centres upon full inclusion within the higher education curriculum of such disciplines as women's studies, ethnic studies, criminal studies and teacher education. It has a chapter on each discipline and discusses the topic of marginalization within academia.
Academic Identity
Race, Place and Gender in the Higher Education Curriculum
Av Robert P. Engvall (Roger Williams University, USA)
Häftad, 2003
310 kr
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This text centres upon full inclusion within the higher education curriculum of such disciplines as women's studies, ethnic studies, criminal studies and teacher education. It has a chapter on each discipline and discusses the topic of marginalization within academia.
Testing Controversy
A Rhetoric of Educational Reform
Inbunden, 2003
476 kr
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This is a reading of the controversies surrounding educational testing between the early 1970s and the late 1990s. It focuses attention on the challenges to standardize testing, the emergence of performance-based and outcome-based education and the eventual decline of these reform efforts.
Testing Controversy
A Rhetoric of Educational Reform
Häftad, 2003
310 kr
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This is a reading of the controversies surrounding educational testing between the early 1970s and the late 1990s. It focuses attention on the challenges to standardize testing, the emergence of performance-based and outcome-based education and the eventual decline of these reform efforts.
Wayside Attractions
The Negotiations of Aspirations and Careers Among African-American Adolescent Males in an Urban Alternative School
Av Christopher Bruce Martin (Northern Colorado University, USA)
Inbunden, 2003
449 kr
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This text explores the way in which aspirations and careers get negotiated and are constructed among African-American adolescent males int he context of an urban alternative school. It also explores the issue of school and career failure through an ethnographic account of an alternative program.
Wayside Attractions
The Negotiations of Aspirations and Careers Among African-American Adolescent Males in an Urban Alternative School
Av Christopher Bruce Martin (Northern Colorado University, USA)
Häftad, 2003
214 kr
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This text explores the way in which aspirations and careers get negotiated and are constructed among African-American adolescent males int he context of an urban alternative school. It also explores the issue of school and career failure through an ethnographic account of an alternative program.
Educating for the Good Life
Democratic Schooling and Its Dilemmas
Inbunden, 2003
531 kr
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This book explores the following questions: What is the relationship between democratic ideals and goodness in education? What are the characteristics of good schooling and how can they be integrated into real policies and practices. What are the greatest challenges facing schools and how are they …
Educating for the Good Life
Democratic Schooling and Its Dilemmas
Häftad, 2003
241 kr
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This book explores the following questions: What is the relationship between democratic ideals and goodness in education? What are the characteristics of good schooling and how can they be integrated into real policies and practices. What are the greatest challenges facing schools and how are they …
Best of That World
Historically Black High Schools and the Crisis of Segregation in a Southern Metropolis
Inbunden, 2006
614 kr
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This book chronicles the history, the closing, and what some see as the restoration of historically black high schools from the voices of civil rights activists, community leaders, alumni, teachers, and other involved and affected by the desegregation process. A major theme is the power White …
Best of That World
Historically Black High Schools and the Crisis of Segregation in a Southern Metropolis
Häftad, 2006
297 kr
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This book chronicles the history, the closing, and what some see as the restoration of historically black high schools from the voices of civil rights activists, community leaders, alumni, teachers, and other involved and affected by the desegregation process. A major theme is the power White …
Teaching the Children We Fear
Lessons from the Front
Inbunden, 2009
614 kr
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This teacher narrative draws on several years of teaching children and adolescents who are deemed severe emotionally disordered by the public school system. The stories told in this volume are written as a means inquiry into constraints and possibilities of working meaningfully with students who …
Teaching the Children We Fear
Lessons from the Front
Häftad, 2008
241 kr
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This teacher narrative draws on several years of teaching children and adolescents who are deemed severe emotionally disordered by the public school system. The stories told in this volume are written as a means inquiry into constraints and possibilities of working meaningfully with students who …
Time for Change
New Visions for High School
Inbunden, 2006
504 kr
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This book brings together some of the foremost ideas on reforming education for 14-18 year olds with a focus on more significant reforms for revisioning of high school. The first chapter provides a context for understanding the rationale, conceptual framework, obstacles, and political context of …
Time for Change
New Visions for High School
Häftad, 2006
255 kr
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This book brings together some of the foremost ideas on reforming education for 14-18 year olds with a focus on more significant reforms for revisioning of high school. The first chapter provides a context for understanding the rationale, conceptual framework, obstacles, and political context of …
PH.D. Stories
Conversations with My Sisters
Inbunden, 2011
504 kr
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Looks at the challenges and triumphs of Black women academicians.
PH.D. Stories
Conversations with My Sisters
Av JoAnne Dowdy
Häftad, 2008
200 kr
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Looks at the challenges and triumphs of Black women academicians.
Standing for Literacy
Teaching in the Context of Change
Av Laura Pardo, Kathy Highfield m. fl.
Inbunden, 2011
449 kr
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Standing for Literacy
Teaching in the Context of Change
Av Laura Pardo, Kathy Highfield m. fl.
Häftad, 2011
324 kr
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Schools for Marginalized Youth
An International Perspective
Inbunden, 2012
1084 kr
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The good news is that information is back in vogue, especially the education of students of colour attending schools in metropolitan areas. The bad news is that there remains little consensus about how best to improve the education of these students marginalised by the current theory and practice …
Schools for Marginalized Youth
An International Perspective
Häftad, 2012
490 kr
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The good news is that information is back in vogue, especially the education of students of colour attending schools in metropolitan areas. The bad news is that there remains little consensus about how best to improve the education of these students marginalised by the current theory and practice …
Taming Reform
Reinventing Government Yields to ""Business As Usual"" for Young Children
Av Jean A. Patterson, Aimee Adkins
Inbunden, 2012
476 kr
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Smart Start, North Carolina's early childhood initiative, was enacted in 1992 by the North Carolina General Assembly to great fanfare and accolades as well as political turmoil. The chapters in this book trace the history of Smart Start and report on qualitative studies conducted between 1993 and …
Taming Reform
Reinventing Government Yields to ""Business As Usual"" for Young Children
Av Jean A. Patterson, Aimee Adkins
Häftad, 2012
228 kr
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Smart Start, North Carolina's early childhood initiative, was enacted in 1992 by the North Carolina General Assembly to great fanfare and accolades as well as political turmoil. The chapters in this book trace the history of Smart Start and report on qualitative studies conducted between 1993 and …
Discourse and Power in Educational Organizations
Av David Corson
Häftad, 1995
324 kr
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In today's post-modern and post-traditional institutions, power is mainly exercised through the generation of consent, through the distribution of ideologies and through the subtle indoctrination of self-disciplining practices, rather than through the use of force or brute authority. This change in …
Good Schools
The Policy Environment Perspective
Inbunden, 1995
526 kr
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This volume reports on the policy-based dimensions, or policy elements, of three successful high schools. The nature and function of these policy elements and the relationship among them constitute what the author terms the policy environment.
Good Schools
The Policy Environment Perspective
Av Charles A. Tesconi (The American University, USA)
Häftad, 1995
239 kr
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This volume reports on the policy-based dimensions, or policy elements, of three successful high schools. The nature and function of these policy elements and the relationship among them constitute what the author terms the policy environment.
